I mean Because I Love You by old Aussie band Masters Apprentices.
Fields of Gold
What a Wonderful World
Time of Year (by Better than Ezra)
Layla
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Sorry…can’t pick just one.
function at the junction…“they invited double-07,the private eye and he’s bringing 'long the guys from I Spy”…and not to mention ,CarWash
Tom Sawyer - Rush
I can’t possibly pick just one.
The Beatles’ Come Together was the song that made me want to take up the bass and guitar and be a musician.
Rhapsody In Blue is the earliest piece of music I remember, on an album my father had by the Hamburg Philharmonia with David Haines, pianist. I collect versions of this piece, and I’ve since found one that is the identical recording, credited to the Pro Arts Symphony with Roger Aarons at the Steinway. So I don’t know who performed it! Probably the former, as the Somerset label was founded by a guy who got musicians on the cheap, from Germany. This arrangement is so burned into my memory, that all other versions sound slightly wrong - too rushed in spots, too drawn out in spots, the pianist flubbed the cadenza, or whatever. I’m not even crazy about the Paul Whiteman versions with George himself at the piano! Oscar Levant did a nice job, though.
I have to stop here, because I have thousands of favorite songs of all time, and the records to prove it!
Have you ever heard Rhapshody In Blue on a Moog? In the late 60’s, early 70’s, when the Moog was the “instrument” to have, someone put out an album titled “The Well Tempered Synthesizer” (a play on The Well Tempered Clavicord, a (IIRC) Mozart album) It included several classical pieces and RinB
Yes, I have that album. Bloop, bleep!
Close; it’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, by Bach.
“All my little words” by Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields)
We all have thousands – that’s why music is such a wonderful thing. But if I had to pick one:
“Praise You” by Fatboy Slim.